One late afternoon at the end of September, a month before the start of the N.B.A. season, Prokhorov was reclining on a gray padded chair in his Moscow office, a cup of tea in front of him.
"The mayor's office and Cup organizers have to answer the hard feasibility questions at our hearing on Dec. 1 or else this will be all for naught," he said.
A journalist sits in her home office, a cup of coffee in her hand.
Inside the hospital, especially on locked units, peers appeared to spend a great deal of time escorting clients off the unit, thus allowing access to valued resources like a smoke, money (at the hospital's cash office), a cup of coffee, or a breath of fresh air.
When we sat down in his office, with cups of tea, he said, "Let me tell you about my own conflict".
Football supporters fleeing rubber bullets, roads into stadiums blocked by angry crowds, mobs throwing stones at Fifa offices, Confederations Cup placards being ripped down and burned in the midst of mass protests.
On a USA series there are no dank unemployment offices, no cups of weak coffee, only high floors, soaring views and crisp French roasts.
My brother walked out of his busy office for a cup of coffee the other day.
Traffic was light, and they arrived unexpectedly early, so Nicole decided to go up to Frank's office for a cup of coffee.
Ragged and frayed, you leave the office for a cup of coffee and are served by a barista who is showing all the symptoms of bird flu.
